Italian Vincenzo Nibali retained his Vuelta a Espana lead on Monday despite suffering on the final climb as France’s Warren Barguil won stage 16, the race’s third and final Pyrenean summit finish at Sallent de Gallego.
Barguil outduelled Colombian co-breakaway Rigoberto Uran to take his second stage win of the 2013 Vuelta.
As the race reaches its second rest day Nibali still leads overall, but American Chris Horner attacked late on to regain around 20 seconds but remains in second withSpain’s Alejandro Valverde in third.
Stage 16 Brief Results:
- Warren Barguil (France / Argos) 3:43:31″
- Rigoberto Uran (Colombia / Team Sky) ST
- Bartosz Huzarski (Poland / NetApp) +3″
- Dominik Nerz (Germany / BMC Racing) +8″
- Jose Herrada (Spain / Movistar) +20″
- Mickael Cherel (France / AG2R) +37″
- Maciej Paterski (Poland / Cannondale)
- Andre Cardoso (Portugal / Caja Rural) +40″
- Amets Txurruka (Spain / Caja Rural) +42″
- Chris Sorensen (Denmark / Saxo – Tinkoff) +45″
General Classification After Stage 16:
- Vincenzo Nibali (Italy / Astana) 64:06:01″
- Chris Horner (U.S. / RadioShack) +28″
- Alejandro Valverde (Spain / Movistar) +1:14″
- Joaquim Rodriguez (Spain / Katusha) +2:29″
- Domenico Pozzovivo (Italy / AG2R) +3:38″
- Nicolas Roche (Ireland / Saxo – Tinkoff) +3:43″
- Thibaut Pinot (France / FDJ.fr) +4:37″
- Leopold Koenig (Czech Republic / NetApp) +6:17″
- Samuel Sanchez (Spain / Euskaltel) +7:33″
- Tanel Kangert (Estonia / Astana) +9:21″
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